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Revision as of 16:53, 24 November 2020

Building details
Covenanter.JPG
Name Covenanter Hotel
Address High Street (or The Square), Falkland
Postcode KY15 7BU
Other names Commercial Hotel
Date 1771
OS grid ref NO252073
Latitude & longitude 56°15'11"N 3°12'27"W
Listing Category B
Listing ref LB31278
Listing name Covenanter Hotel (Formerly Commercial Hotel), High Street

The Covenanter Hotel is an hotel in Falkland.

It takes its name from the Covenanters, a presbyterian religious movement in the 17th century

Listing description

Dated 17RBEB71 2-storey 3-window snecked rubble with painted margins, raised quoins, Roman doric columned doorpiece with swagged frieze; scroll-skews, slated. Eastern extension small 2-storey baronial with crowstepped gable and turret c 1870.

Cobbled area in front. Category A section of larger group (cont).

Special features

Extensions

The hotel now incorporates the Covenanter Bar, previously a separate establsihment.

Former residents

Further references

On the S side [of the square} squeezed by the Town House, the diminutive late C19 Baronial Covenanter Bar. ... Covenanter Hotel is dated 1771 on a gable window; on the front, Roman Doric doorpiece with a swagged frieze.[1]

Notes

  1. Gifford, Fife, page 220.

Gallery

[Click on a picture below to see the image full-size]